Derek Shockey

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Age: 31
City: Omaha
Country: United States

Joined: Apr 2008

“What i feel when i’m playing guitar is completely cold and crazy, like i don’t owe nobody nothing… and it’s just a test just to see how far i can relax into the cold wave of a note. When everything hits just right (just and right), the note of nobility can go on forever. I never tire of the solitary E and I TRUST MY GUITAR and i don’t care about anything. Sometimes I feel like I’ve broken through and I’m free, and I could dig into eternity, into eternity riding the wave and realm of the E. SOMETIMES IT’S USELESS… here I am struggling and filled with dread… afraid that i’ll never squeeze enough graphite from my damaged cranium to inspire or asphyxiate any eyes grazing like hungry cows across the stage or page. Inside of me I’m crazy, I’m just crazy. Inside I MUST continue. I see her, my stiff muse… jutting around round, round, round, like a broken speeding statue. The colonial year is dead and the Greeks too are finished. The face of Alexander remains not only solely due to sculpture but through the power and foresight and magnetism of Alexander himself. The artist MUST maintain his swagger. He must, he must, he MUST be intoxicated by ritual as well as result… Look at me, I am laughing… I am laughing. I am lapping cocaine from the hard brown palm of the bouncer. and I TRUST MY GUITAR!!! Therefore we black out together… therefore I would run through scum, and scum is just ahead… ah we see it, but we just laugh. We’re ascending through the hollow mountain…. we are peaking… WE ARE LAUGHING. we are kneeling… WE ARE LAUGHING…. WE ARE RADIATING AT LAST!!!!. THIS REBELLION IS JUST A GAS, our gas… a gas that we pass”

- PATTI SMITH

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“ARTISTS TO MY MIND ARE THE REAL ARCHITECTS OF CHANGE, AND NOT THE POLITICAL LEGISLATORS WHO IMPLEMENT CHANGE AFTER THE FACT”
-WILLIAM S. BORROUGHS